Sen. Mel Richardson, R-Idaho Falls, has announced that he’ll retire at the end of his current term, his 10th in the Legislature. Richardson, who served two terms in the House and then eight in the Senate, said, “After 20 years, it’s just time. Health wise,…
Legislation introduced by Secretary of State Ben Ysursa this morning to clarify and expand Idaho’s lobbying laws has backing even from the lobbyists themselves, according to the Associated Press. AP reporter John Miller reported that Skip Smyser, head of the Legislative Advisors group at the…
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee had been scheduled to set the public school budget tomorrow morning, but now that’s been delayed to next week because of the Senate Education Committee’s passage yesterday of the revised iSTARS teacher pay legislation. “We don’t want to be out in…
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